Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was too much for Monsignor Edward A. Freking, editor of the official archdiocesan weekly, the Catholic Telegraph-Register. Cried Monsignor Freking: "I could take Mildred Miller's whole column, change 25 words, and prove that people descended from apes." In an editorial in the Telegraph-Register last week, he threatened a Catholic boycott of the Enquirer if the American Weekly ("literary trash and blasphemous views") lived up to its advance billing...
Down with Crump. Raising rumpuses is nothing new for Edward Towner Leech. At 57, greying, mild-mannered Ed Leech has been a Scripps-Howard editor in Memphis, Birmingham, Denver and Pittsburgh for 31 years, longer than anybody else in the chain. He started out as an $8-a-week cub, would still rather hunch over a typewriter than an editor's desk, turns out a weekly syndicated column for Scripps-Howard...
...best in the show, a tempera House by the Seashore (see cut) by the University of Wisconsin's Ray Obermayr, owed an obvious debt to the two living U.S. masters: Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper. It struck a low blue note characteristic of the exhibition as a whole. Buffalo's Hubert Raczka had painted a lonely little figure through the bars of a fire escape, called it Insignificance. The Portland Museum School's Robert Galaher had wrapped his hulking Circus Worker in a sad, smokelike haze, and Milwaukee's John Pagac had contributed a fatly photographic...
Doubts & Difficulties. Scientists, however, grew jittery at what some called "unwarranted encouragement" for arthritis sufferers, and tried to calm the wave of optimism. The Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward C. Kendall, one of the researchers who first announced the cortisone treatment, said of the report: "Interesting, but I don't think that is the answer." In the "four or five years" before enough seeds could be grown, he said, "we expect to have cortisone available in much larger supply from other sources." In the Merck laboratories, the Strophanthus product, sarmentogenin (first isolated in 1915), had already been carefully...
...Died. Edward Lee Thorndike, 74, since 1904 Columbia University's famed educational psychologist; of a heart ailment; in Montrose, N.Y. One of the creators of the original Army Alpha intelligence test used in World War I, he wrote more than 450 books and articles on experimental psychology and the nature of learning...